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I didn’t have a conventional mother growing up. To this day she is a very complicated person to describe. Perhaps the closest person to her is Laura, and this is the very reason why when they get along the world trembles, but when they don’t, there’s war. From the fiercest warrior, to a catatonic Buddha…

“When flooded turn back please” should have been the sign to greet us at the border when we crossed into Botswana… more than that, we should have listened. Old signs at the different accommodation stages that stated “Botswana is mostly a dry country going through a drought, please use water carefully” haven’t bothered to update…

One of the biggest fights I ever had on a roadtrip was with my brother, potentially due to both of us being hungry; he wouldn’t stop for the elephants. All our lives we had been training for the “roadtrip efficiency marathon” that Maximo would put us throught to get to Los Llanos. The premises were…

When they say age is just a number, they are right. W;hat we attached to that big number and big milestone is entirely up to us. When I was younger I thought that when I reached this age I would have a settled married life, I would be travelling the world on occasion and probably…

During our Botswana adventure our first mishappening was having a flat tyre, although not a real issue in itself, it became a source of concern as it didn’t seem that we would be able to have it fixed in the ghost town that Maun becomes after 12pm on a Saturday; we didn’t want to risk…